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View of the title to Indiana, a tract of country on the river Ohio, : containing Indian conferences at Johnson-Hall, in May, 1765; the deed of the Six Nations to the proprietors of Indiana; the minutes of the congress at Fort Stanwix, in October and November, 1768; the deed of the Indians, settling the boundary line between the English and Indians lands; and the opinion of counsel on the title of the proprietors of Indiana

by: Wharton, Samuel, 1732-1800

Publication date: 1779

Topics: Six Nations -- Land tenure, Six Nations -- Treaties, Mohawk Indians -- Treaties, Oneida Indians -- Treaties, Onondaga Indians -- Treaties, Cayuga Indians -- Treaties, Seneca Indians -- Treaties, Tuscarora Indians -- Treaties, Shawnee Indians -- Treaties, Delaware Indians -- Treaties, West Virginia -- History -- To 1950, Ohio River Valley -- History -- To 1795, New York (State) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, Imprint 1779

Publisher: Williamsburg [Va.]: : Printed by J. Dixon & T. Nicolson.

Collection: JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: English

Item Size: 54.4M

8 pages ; 28 cm (4to)

Reprint, minus the "At a congress held at the German Flats ... in July 1770", of the octavo edition printed by Styner and Cist in Philadelphia in 1776 (DePuy, 49)

Referring to a tract of land now in the northwestern part of West Virginia and not to the present state of Indiana

In a letter to Benjamin Franklin, August 7, 1775, Edward Bancroft states that Samuel Wharton and he wrote this pamphlet. See. Alvord, C.W. The Mississippi Valley in British politics, volume 2, page 317

"At a conference held with the Six Nations at Johnson-Hall, May 2d, 1765. Present, Sir William Johnson, baronet, the king's superintendent of Indian affairs ... Sir William addressed the Six Nations as follows": pages 2-4

"To all people to whom these presents shall come, greeting: know ye that we Abraham a Mohawk chief, Sennghois, a Oneida chief, Saquarifera a Tuscarora chief, Chenaugheata chief of the Onandaga council, Tagaaia a Cayuga chief, and Gustarax a Seneca chief, chiefs and sachems of the Six United Nations, and being and effectually representing all the tribes of the said Six United Natons, send greeting", pages 4-5, is dated January 7, 1769

"Minutes of the Congress at Fort Stanwix, in 1768. At a general congress held with the Six Nations, Shawnesse, Delaware, Senecas of Ohio, and their dependents, at Fort Stanwix, October 26, 1768": pages 5-6. Fort Stanwix is located in Rome, New York

"At a general congress held at Fort Stanwix with the Six Nations and other Indians, on Tuesday November the 1st, 1768": pages 6-7

"At a general congress held at Fort Stanwix with the Six Nations, and other Indians, on Friday, November 4, 1768": page 7

"At a congress with the several nations, Saturday, November 5, 1768. Present as before": pages 7-8

"Counsellor Dagge's opinion in the Indian grant of lands to William Trent and others, viz", page 8, is dated and signed: Lincoln's Inn, March 20, 1775. Henry Dagge

"Serjeant Glyn's opinion", page 8, is dated and signed: Serjeant's Inn April 13, 1775. John Glynn

Signatures: [A]⁴

Printed in two columns

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